类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Squire Thorndyke, of the Manor House of Crawley, was, on the 1st of September; 1782, walking up and down the little terrace in front of the quaint old house in an unusually disturbed mood. He was a man of forty three or four, stoutly and strongly bui...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： This famous mutiny occurred while the reins of British rule in India were in the hands of Lord Canning. Chupattees (cakes of flour and water) were circulated among the natives, placards protesting against British rule were posted at Delhi, and when t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It may be a fair sight in a Roman's eyes, Beric, but nought could be fouler to those of a Briton. To me every one of those blocks of brick and stone weighs down and helps to hold in bondage this land of ours; while that temple they have dared to rear...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A stately lady was looking out of the window of an apartment in the Royal Chateau of Amboise, in the month of June, 1470. She was still handsome, though many years of anxiety, misfortune, and trouble, had left their traces on her face. In the room be...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Living in the present days of peace and tranquillity it is difficult to picture the life of our ancestors in the days of King Alfred, when the whole country was for years overrun by hordes of pagan barbarians, who slaughtered, plundered, and destroye...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Aldous Huxley阿道司·赫胥黎
简介： THE most sumptuous present that Millicent received on her seventh birthday was a dolls house. With love to darling little Mill from Aunty Loo. Aunt Loo was immensely rich, and the dolls house was almost as grandiose and massive as herself....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was a bitterly cold night in the month of November, 1330. The rain was pouring heavily, when a woman, with a child in her arms, entered the little village of Southwark. She had evidently come from a distance, for her dress was travel-stained and m...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Aldous Huxley阿道司·赫胥黎
简介： Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trainsthe few that there werestopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, a...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Steel talked between roses. Kintyre parried Yamamura's slash; his riposte thumped on the other man's arm....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There's a library in a small town near Charles Neck on Murdock Sound. It's so run down and useless that a lot of old books still hang around on the shelves, the big kind with stiff backs and all kinds of fancy little stars or small, curly designs to...
